In an effort to assist city residents braving the bitter cold, the Providence Journal reports that the City of Central Falls has opened a warming center from Wednesday through Saturday at the Forand Manor (30 Washington St).

CENTRAL FALLS, R.I.—On Thursday, December 18 from 5:30-7:30pm, Mayor Diossa in partnership with VPI Distribution and Warehousing, will host a job fair for Central Falls residents. VPI will be accepting applications for employment for various job positions, including assembler, packagers, team leader, loader, and more.

CENTRAL FALLS, RI – Central Falls is a tiny town in Rhode Island with 19,000 residents. It sits on one square mile of the state, making it the smallest and most densely populated town in RI. It is also the only town in RI without a permanent tennis court. Central Falls Mayor, James Diossa wants to change that and it is his intent to bring tennis to life in the town he loves

CENTRAL FALLS – The third annual Bright Future Festival will kick off Saturday afternoon, with a diverse celebration of the city's culture, including dance and musical performances, and concluding with a firework display.

City has $8.7M of outstanding GO debt

New York, June 23, 2014 -- Moody's Investors Service has upgraded the City of Central Falls' (RI) general obligation rating to Ba3 from B1, affecting $8.7 million in outstanding general obligation bonds; the outlook has changed to stable from positive. Moody's has also affirmed the Ba1 underlying rating with a stable outlook on the Rhode Island Health and Educational Building Corporation's (RIHEBC) Series 2007B bonds, affecting $4.9 million in rated RIHEBC pooled debt.

CENTRAL FALLS — The City Council Monday approved Mayor James A. Diossa’s $17.2 million budget for the new fiscal year that begins July 1. The city budget is composed of five separate city ordinances. The city ordinances that set the tax rate and levy, the classified employees wage schedule and the capital program and budget were passed unanimously by the six-member council.

The slow death and rebirth of Central Falls

If Rhode Island was the birthplace of the American Industrial Revolution, then Central Falls was its cradle.

American textile manufacturing first took hold in Central Falls and the neighboring town of Pawtucket, creating a booming mill town. First producing chocolate and snuff, the mills came to produce “clothing, tools, brooms, aprons, badges, candy, beverage bottles, lace, braid, hosiery, webbing, belting, spools, art goods, rayon, mills supplies, monuments, and knitting machines,” according to the city. That drew early waves of European immigrants from Canada, Ireland, Poland, and Portugal, whose descendants still live in the area. In the 1960s and 1970s, a labor shortage prompted a second wave of immigrants from Latin America to begin coming to the area.